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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Santa Clown” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 7h

ACA = “Obamacare”. Same thing. Its proof that many white folks would rather shoot off their own foot if they knew something helped a black or latino person get by too. Its no different from how they used to fill public pools with cement during integration resulting in everyone being hot & miserable.

LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 15h

America is so racist that some Americans believed SNAP benefits were for white people and food stamps were for black people and they did not know they were the same thing and are now horrified to learn they are losing their food subsidies.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1h

I’m doing research for a project and found out about the “don’t buy where you can’t work” movement during the depression, where Black people boycotted and picketed places that wouldn’t hire us. Shout out to everyone who’s not going back to Target!

"Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" | National Museum of African American History & Culture.

<p>“Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” campaigns of the 1930s used effective direct-action tactics, such as boycotts and picketing. </p>

www.searchablemuseum.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1h

I don't know if that's true anymore. Real newspapers have a limited scope, the erosion of local news means that the bar for stuff to get reported on is quite high, and I see stuff on TikTok all of the time that people is saying is happening in their communities that I have no way to verify

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2h

I feel one million years old here, but we do actually have a pretty reliable way of knowing what news is true. Did a real newspaper publish it? Then probably yes. Can’t find it in a real newspaper? Maybe not.

Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 3h

A large majority of U.S. adults now get news digitally, but nondigital news consumers are less likely to say they extremely often or often encounter inaccurate news.

Read more on Americans’ views of information accuracy and distinguishing truth from fiction:

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Ann Elizabeth @diggybaby.bsky.social · 2h

He deleted that response QUICK

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Ann Elizabeth @diggybaby.bsky.social · 3h

Death by a thousand cuts

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 9h

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Ann Elizabeth @diggybaby.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sad

Ann Elizabeth @diggybaby.bsky.social · 4h

The fact that this is not hyperbole AT ALL

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 15h

Your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 11h

bookshop.org/p/books/dyin...

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Joanna Blackhart [They/Them] @joannablackhart.com · 6h

I've said it countless times and I'll never stop telling yall.

White folks will always be willing to harm themselves as long as they know that Black and brown folks are being hurt more because of their actions. Always.

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Santa Clown” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 7h

ACA = “Obamacare”. Same thing. Its proof that many white folks would rather shoot off their own foot if they knew something helped a black or latino person get by too. Its no different from how they used to fill public pools with cement during integration resulting in everyone being hot & miserable.

LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 15h

America is so racist that some Americans believed SNAP benefits were for white people and food stamps were for black people and they did not know they were the same thing and are now horrified to learn they are losing their food subsidies.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 6h

Starving people while building a massive ballroom isn't wise.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP.

They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown.

They’re refusing.

Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop.

Starvation as a policy choice.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 16h

Prosperity gospel has millions believing that billionaires are holy and righteous because "God has blessed their finances."

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 21h

Did You Know???…

The conviction of police deputy Sean Grayson for the murder of Sonya Massey is *the first time in US history* a cop was convicted of murdering a Black woman

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zellieimani.bsky.social @zellieimani.bsky.social · 18h

Defund the police.
Fund SNAP.

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Yanncé @uhnopenottoday.blacksky.app · 16h

I’m so tired of living in a world where everyone is just regurgitating shit and not verifying anything on their own, just posting, reposting, and sharing shit that is factually incorrect to make a point.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h

Hakeem Jeffries is so bad at his job that he’s had months to come up with coherent sentences in response to questions about Mamdani and still doesn’t have any

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FKA Harlo 🏳️‍🌈 @semisweetasylum.blacksky.app · 23h

I love women so much. If I could exist in a society of only women, I absolutely would.

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 16h

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted over a year.

White America fails to appreciate this.

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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 15h

Same.

Meron @meronmonroe.blacksky.app · 16h

I really hate leaving the house 99% of the time

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 15h

"Why don't people support welfare programs?"

Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.

White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

Race and Redistribution in the United States: An Experimental Analysis∗ Jesper Akesson, Robert W. Hahn, Robert D. Metcalfe and Itzhak Rasooly† February 12, 2022 Abstract It is often argued that many White Americans oppose redistributive welfare policies because of animosity toward Black Americans. While a host of observational studies lend credence to this view, it has not yet been rigorously tested using the tools of randomized inference. In this study, we do exactly this by conducting two incentive-compatible experiments (n = 9, 775) in which different participants are randomly given different information about the share of welfare recipients who identify as Black and White. Our empirical analysis yields four main findings. First, most respondents greatly overestimate the share of welfare recipients who are Black. Second, these exaggerated beliefs reduce support for welfare among White respondents, a causal claim that we establish using treatment assignment as an instrument for beliefs. Third, just making White participants think about the racial composition of welfare recipients––holding constant their actual beliefs––reduces their support for welfare. Fourth, providing accurate information about the racial composition of welfare recipients does not influence support for welfare (relative to not receiving any information).

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h

Is there a music sharing service now that we shouldn’t use the fascist friendly ones??

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Ann Elizabeth @diggybaby.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for that ♥️

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Ann Elizabeth @diggybaby.bsky.social · 16h

I promised myself years ago no more tears over losers. I've not been perfect but I'm doing something for myself today that I'd never thought I'd have to do. But someone has to care about me.

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Ann Elizabeth @diggybaby.bsky.social · 16h

The hardest promises to keep are the ones you make to yourself

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